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request_parser
request_parser is an HTTP request parsing library in Python providing an easy API to access information in HTTP requests.
Getting Started
Dependencies
Requires six and future. These can be installed as below.
pip install six
pip install future
Example
To use the library, git clone
the repository and copy the library directory request_parser
to a location that is present in PYTHONPATH or copy somewhere and add that location to PYTHONPATH
.
Once the library is setup, it can be used as shown below.
from request_parser.http.request import HttpRequest
from io import BytesIO
def parse_request_example(request=None):
if request is None:
return
# create an iterable object out of request bytes
request_stream = BytesIO(request)
# create an HttpRequest object for the request
http_request = HttpRequest(request_stream=request_stream)
# parse request header
http_request.parse_request_header()
# parse request body
http_request.parse_request_body()
# do stuff with parsed information from the HttpRequest object
print "This is a request to: "+http_request.get_host()
It is also possible to use the parse()
method of HttpRequest
object to parse the request header and the body in a single call.
Following picture shows how the infromation contained in an HttpRequest
object looks like after successfully parsing a multipart/form-data
request.
For more documentation, please see the wiki.
Miscellaneous
The master branch is compatible only with Python 2.7. The python3
branch works with Python 3.5 and above.